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Last year we repped bullet journaling for enhanced productivity. A year later I have adopted a few new hacks for keeping it up. They boil down to this: keep it simple stupid!

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Wool & Leather Briefcase

$42.99 | Amazon

Tribe of Mentors

$20 | Lemuria

When facing life’s questions, who do you turn to for advice? We all need mentors, particularly when the odds seem stacked against us. To find his own, best-selling author Tim Ferriss tracked down more than 100 eclectic experts to help him, and you, navigate life. Through short, action-packed profiles, he shares their secrets for success, happiness, meaning, and more.

Herschel Little America Backpack

$99.99 | Swell-o-phonic

A popular everyday classic, the Herschel Little America™ backpack elevates an iconic mountaineering style with modern functionality. We love the signature striped fabric liner and the fleece lined 15" laptop sleeve for holding our Mac Book. The chambray and leather accents say I got style, the internal media pocket with headphone port says I am thinking ahead. Of course, if you are rocking some wireless buds from Schatzii, you can just stow your phone safely in the soft padded pocket and rock!

Halt and Catch Fire

AMC | Netflix

Halt and Catch Fire is a fictional tale of an early group of tech pioneers based in Texas and through four seasons eventually ending up in California. Tells the story of technology startups as well as Silicon Valley (HBO) but in a much more serious and dramatic tone. We were hooked and binged this hard!

How I Built This

Podcast feat: Guy Raz | Free

Guy interviews some of the most successful startup founders and digs into the ups and downs of building a business from scratch. Our favorites are Instagram and Spanx!

mandal.ai meetings app

Mandal.ai uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to monitor chats both inside of its own platform or on email to spot when a meeting is made and confirmed. Mandal.ai can recognize a request for a meeting, offer suggested times to both (or multiple) parties by quickly looks through each user’s calendar, and confirm and save a meeting without the user ever picking up their phone. Another key feature mimics the much loved "Sunrise" app and integrates a Mandal.ai keyboard into any other messaging app.

Mantle. Coffee Cup

$25 | Sandbox Store

We love our blue mugs like the next person. But, sometime you need your coffee to go, and a way to keep it hot!

Reid Hoffman famously started both PayPal and LinkedIn, now he is one of Silicon Valley's most prolific investors. His superstardom on the west coast gives him access to the biggest names in the new economy like Mark Zuckerberg and Reed Hastings of Netflix.

Failed It!

$12.95 | Lemuria

How to turn mistakes into ideas and other advice for successfully screwing up. Failed it is an inspirational guide for creatives, students and young professionals, it will take the fear out of failure and encourage experimentation.

Google Pixelbook + Pixel 2

$999.00 + $649 | Google

We love our MacBooks and iPhones and nearly everything Apple, however, Google is making moves with its latest hardware offerings: the new Pixelbook and Pixel 2 phone. The Pixelbook is a clam shell laptop and flipped around a tablet. We love that you can charge both with the same USB-C cord and that the OS is seemless with all Google's software that we already use and love.

Founder

Stream on Netflix | Amazon

From Inc. Magazine: Why the McDonald's Story of 'The Founder' Made the Perfect Entrepreneur Movie

A comedy such as HBO's Silicon Valley only works if the audience gets what it's sending up. But if much is familiar about The Founder--the new movie about McDonald's impresario Ray Kroc, who wasn't a founder but took over the chain from the bedrock-moral brothers Dick and Mac McDonald--is familiar, it is also an instant classic of its type, hitting virtually every note on the startup story scale. Its telling of the six-decades-old McDonald's saga makes it the quintessential contemporary entrepreneurial tale.

Broke Millennial

$15.00 | Urban Outfitters

If you're a cash-strapped 20- or 30-something, it's easy to get freaked out by finances. It's time to stop scraping by and take control of your money and your life with this savvy and smart guide. Broke Millennial shows, step-by-step, how to go from flat-broke to financial maven.

The Obstacle is the Way

$14.16 | Lemuria

“To see an obstacle as a challenge, to make the best of it anyway, that is also a choice—a choice that is up to us.” “Uncertainty and fear are relieved by authority. Training is authority.” “Wherever we are, whatever we're doing and wherever we are going, we owe it to ourselves, to our art, to the world to do it well.”